President Barack Obama is a greater threat to the United States than crack-smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is to his city, Washington Times columnist Charles Hurt says.

"We might actually be in better shape if all we were talking about here was a president smoking crack or having some drunken rage on a videotape because . . . all that is just going to go away when Rob Ford leaves the Toronto mayoralty,'' Hurt told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

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"But the stuff that President Obama is doing and the way in which he is undermining the Constitution — completely ignoring the Constitution — he's rewritten his healthcare law twice, and then there are countless other examples."